LETTER: Prayer for the fallen in Va.

To the editor:

From the moment I started up my computer and read the breaking news of the shooting in a dorm in Virginia Tech, I felt the sorrow and could only try to imagine how the people in the dorms were feeling. Then the updates started flowing, and the news of the second shooting gave me the chills: just about the time when students are going in and out of class, the gunman went into another killing spree, injuring and killing faculty and students in an engineering building.

Coincidentally, I live in the dorms right here in USU (Valley View Tower), and when I’m not home I’m in the Engineering Building. Honestly, I couldn’t even start to imagine what would happen if something like that would happen right here, in our campus. I guess there are no words that I could use to describe how bad I feel for those people and their families, or how frightening is the mere thought of a maniac with a gun around the places I walk every day. Let’s hope that our authorities are prepared for this type of situation, given that VA Tech used to be as peaceful and uneventful as our campus is right now. Above all, let’s unite in prayer for the fallen and their families.

Katherine Ovalle